Once, when the Master lived in the State of Ch'in, he exclaimed, "Let me
get home again! Let me get home! My school-children [13] are wild and
impetuous! Though they are somewhat accomplished, and perfect in one
sense in their attainments, yet they know not how to make nice
discriminations."

Of Peh-I and Shuh Ts'i he said, "By the fact of their not remembering
old grievances, they gradually did away with resentment."

Of Wei-shang Kau he said, "Who calls him straightforward? A person once
begged some vinegar of him, and he begged it from a neighbor, and then
presented him with it!"

"Fine speech," said he, "and studied mien, and superfluous show of
deference--of such things Tso-k'iu Ming was ashamed, I too am ashamed of
such things. Also of hiding resentment felt towards an opponent and
treating him as a friend--of this kind of thing he was ashamed, and so
too am I."

Attended once by the two disciples Yen Yuen and Tsz-lu, he said, "Come
now, why not tell me, each of you, what in your hearts you are really
after?"

"I should like," said Tsz-lu, "for myself and my friends and associates,
carriages and horses, and to be clad in light furs! nor would I mind
much if they should become the worse for wear."

"And I should like," said Yen Yuen, "to live without boasting of my
abilities, and without display of meritorious deeds."